• Forward says he is ‘very happy’ at Liverpool • Firmino has scored 50 goals in 140 appearances since arriving Roberto Firmino has committed his future to Liverpool by signing a new five-year contract, the Premier League club said on Sunday. The Brazilian forward, who joined from Hoffenheim in 20...

The US owners have transformed Anfield, healed rifts with the community and addressed blight but poverty remains stark Throughout Tuesday’s exhilarating Champions League night at Anfield, when Roma were overpowered by Jürgen Klopp’s resurgent Liverpool, there was an irresistible sense of a whole...

Jürgen Klopp did his best to keep his players focused on the matter in hand, describing this game as the most important one of the season and appealing to the crowd for fervent support, though a rugged and resolute Stoke were the last opponents Liverpool needed to meet between the two legs of the...

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has called for 'responsibility from everyone' after a Liverpool supporter was assaulted on Tuesday evening. There are concerns from travelling fans over the level of security in Rome ahead of the Champions League semi-final second leg this Wednesday Jürgen Klopp cal...

• Security concerns following attack on Liverpool fan outside Anfield • ‘It is only football, ’ says Klopp ahead of semi-final second leg Jürgen Klopp has appealed for “responsibility from everyone” at Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final in Rome amid concerns over security and the attack that...

Paul Lambert has overseen three wins at Liverpool in his managerial career, the most recent with Wolves in the FA Cup last season, but now must accomplish what no other Stoke manager in history has done to bring hope to the club’s relegation fight. Stoke have never won a top flight league game at...

Who was quick? Who hit a hat-trick? Who scored spot-kicks? Related: Football quiz: Liverpool in Europe Which of these statements about Arsène Wenger is false? He was the first non-British manager to win the league championship in England He was the first manager to go unbeaten all season in Engla...

It’s once again time to appreciate the most incompetent teams in the Premier League, from those who throw the ball straight to opposition to goalkeepers who can’t keep goal Welcome to the Guardian’s fourth annual index of ineptitude, its directory of disappointment and catalogue of clumsiness. To...

Newspaper apologises for piece suggesting Liverpool fans shared responsibility after a supporter was injured The Daily Express has apologised after it published an “ill-informed and wrong” article suggesting Liverpool fans shared responsibility for violence before a Champions League semi-final ma...

Spending £50m on a full-back may seem extravagant but it demonstrates the position’s importance in the modern game According to some people, any club who can afford to spend £50m on a full-back should be champions. I have lost count of the amount of times this line has been used as a reason why M...

• Liverpool take steps to protect 5, 000 fans travelling to semi-final • Fears heightened after Liverpool fan assaulted outside Anfield Liverpool have taken the unprecedented step of organising a meeting with Uefa, Roma and the Italian authorities in Rome on Friday over serious security concerns...

Gerrard among those being considered to replace Graham Murty Former England captain is an academy coach at Liverpool Steven Gerrard is among the candidates being considered by Rangers to become their manager. The former Liverpool and England captain is an academy coach at Anfield and has never ma...

• Liverpool team-mates praise striker as one of the world’s top three • ‘Mo is becoming a superstar … it looks easy what he does’ Mohamed Salah has already shot past Kevin De Bruyne to take the first individual award of the domestic season; now bookmakers are starting to wake up to the possibilit...

• Liverpool midfielder suffered knee ligament damage against Roma • Setback for club and country, with no time-frame for recovery Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will miss Liverpool’s pursuit of Champions League glory and England’s World Cup campaign due to the knee injury sustained against Roma. Related...

• Uefa financial fair play forced us to do the deal, Monchi adds • ‘Had we not we probably would not be here in the semi-final’ Roma’s sporting director, Monchi, has defended the sale of Mohamed Salah to Liverpool and insisted the Italian club had no option because of financial-fair-play pressure...

Milner has become the most creative player in a single Champions League season through the unassuming virtues of versatility, game-management and fitting into a system Sometimes the cock crows at midnight, the cats bark a dawn chorus and the cow does indeed jump over the moon. Just as every now a...

Liverpool’s blitzing of Roma stands in a proud tradition of European occasions on which their will to win overwhelmed opponents. Here are five of the best This season’s Champions League is already confirmed as the highest-scoring ever in terms of goals per game, and Liverpool are out in front as...

Anfield manager’s measured assessment of brilliant 5-2 Champions League semi-final victory contrasts starkly with his Roma counterpart’s blame game The awe and wonder from a remarkable Anfield night has not diminished the day after. Fifteen minutes to play in a Champions League semi-final and Jür...

• Mixture of hope and despair in Italian papers after 5-2 defeat • ‘How many times do miracles repeat themselves?’ “Come on Roma, you can do it.” Corriere dello Sport’s front-page headline somehow came across as more desperate than optimistic. Thirty-four years the Giallorossi had waited to play...

Liverpool took one step closer to the Champions League final after a dazzling 5-2 win against Roma. Speaking after the match Jürgen Klopp praised the form of the 'world class' Mohamed Salah Mo Salah leads Liverpool onslaught to leave Roma needing new miracle Continue reading

• Klopp challenges ‘outstanding’ Mo Salah to prove he is world’s best • Di Francesco: ‘This tie is not over. We scored three against Barça’ Jürgen Klopp said Liverpool will withstand another Roma recovery next week after seizing control of their Champions League semi-fina l with a brilliant perfo...

Reds’ talisman broke the back of his former club before Roma hit back with two goals as he caught his breath on the bench Ten minutes before half-time on a wild night of Champions League football Mohamed Salah did perhaps the best thing so far of the many wonderful things contained in his dreamy...

• Liverpool midfielder pulls up during 5-2 win over Roma • Jürgen Klopp says injury is ‘really bad’ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looks likely to miss the World Cup after suffering a “really bad” injury during Liverpool’s 5-2 Champions League victory over Roma . The 24-year-old, who has enjoyed a resur...

Of all the mesmerising nights Liverpool have experienced under Anfield’s floodlights in European competition, where does this one stand? Up there, surely, with Saint-Étienne in 1977, the take-a-bow goal from Steven Gerrard against Olympiakos in 2005 and the fightback against Borussia Dortmund in...

Sign up now ! Sign up now ! Sign up now ? Sign up now ! Before Big Cup final in 1984, Roma considered the outcome to be in little doubt. Their destiny, to be crowned champions of Europe, would be played out in their own Stadio Olimpico where the swatting aside of Liverpool was considered little m...

Liverpool’s physicality and ferocious pressing mean the tactics that served Roma against Barcelona will have to be redesigned for the Champions League semi-final first leg Two problems dominate all others before Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final at Anfield – at least in determining how the ga...

Today’s questions have got a big night ahead of them Jürgen Klopp: ‘I have this helping syndrome. I care about people’ Against which French team did Liverpool famously overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit in 1991-92? Metz Lille Auxerre Paris Saint-Germain Who were Liverpool's opponents on their retur...

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has released a video message to fans of the club urging them to receive Champions League semi-final opponents Roma as guests and show 'our very best to the world'. The message follows the incident in which the Manchester City bus was damaged before the quarter-final...

Club captain has been with Roma for 16 years and is yearning to lead his hometown club into the final of the Champions League Daniele De Rossi has waited a whole career to be part of a European night at Anfield. He was 18 the last time Roma played away to Liverpool, back in March 2002, newly prom...

Today’s tell-all can’t knock Everton’s football but can knock some of their passing that went astray While Liverpool have considerably larger Italian-based fish to fry at Anfield , their fans may be saddened by reports that Manchester City are in the box-seat to land a whopper Jürgen Klopp had be...

• Manager wants players and fans to create a great atmosphere • Roma seeking to avenge defeat in 1984 European Cup final Jürgen Klopp has filmed a message urging Liverpool fans to receive Roma as guests and show “our very best to the world” when an old rivalry is renewed in the Champions League s...

Mohamed Salah topped off an already impressive season with a trophy of his own as he was crowned the men’s PFA player of the year on Sunday evening. The Egypt international beat the likes of Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, Leroy Sané and David Silva. However, Salah’s rise to stardom has come a...

Mohamed Salah is the PFA player of the year but no one has been as beautiful to watch as Kevin De Bruyne. Only a Champions League final winner for Salah would tip the balance When it came to choosing between Mohamed Salah and Kevin De Bruyne, perhaps it was the element of surprise that convinced...

Liverpool manager calls for another vote on European future ‘There is not one time in history where division creates success’ Jürgen Klopp, the manager of Liverpool, has told the Guardian that Brexit “makes no sense at all” and that he believes British people should have the chance to vote again...

Exclusive: Liverpool’s manager discusses the Champions League semi-final against Roma, a three-hour chat with Mo Salah, his health scare and Brexit Jürgen Klopp is calm and serene. His face lights up, of course, at the prospect of “the mighty battle” which awaits Liverpool on Tuesday when Roma ar...

• Champions could face charge for scenes after Swansea game • West Brom’s Hegazi could face charge for Ings incident The Football Association is investigating Manchester City following Sunday’s pitch invasion at the Etihad Stadium, and West Bromwich Albion’s Ahmed Hegazi for an alleged punch on L...

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has been named as the Professional Footballers’ Association player of the year for the 2017-18 season. Salah arrived at Anfield last June for a fee of £36.9m, scoring 41 goals in his debut season. Jürgen Klopp congratulated the Egyptian then told him to come back quickly...

The Wales legend was in his pomp for Liverpool’s famous European Cup win over Roma and he sees every reason to hope for a repeat from Jürgen Klopp’s team Rome conjures many glorious European memories for Liverpool but for Ian Rush it means the most nerve-racking walk of his life, singing along to...

Harry Kane is out of sorts, Joe Hart soars before being floored, and Stoke must choose between youth and experience up front While Southampton will take something from getting this far in the world’s most celebrated domestic cup competition there are other, more pressing priorities, such as makin...